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Studio Rethinks Frey's "Pieces"
James Frey's problems are showing no signs of going away.
Shortly after Oprah Winfrey publicly drummed the discredited memoirist out of her book club, Warner Bros. announced that it was having second thoughts about going forward with a planned film adaptation of Frey's A Million Little Pieces.
"We're reevaluating our position on what to do," Warner Bros. President Alan Horn told the Los Angeles Times Friday. "Obviously, we watch Oprah and, like everybody else, we're aware of the change in authenticity of this piece. At some point in the near future, we'll meet and decide what, if anything, to do about it."
Frey came under fire earlier this month after the Smoking Gun Website published a lengthy report disproving large portions of his account detailing struggles with addiction and stints in rehab.
For example, though Frey claimed in his book to have spent 87 days in jail, the Smoking Gun determined that he was behind bars for just a few hours, a fact the author later admitted was true. Frey also confessed to lying about undergoing a root canal without Novocain and to altering the circumstances surrounding his girlfriend's death.
At first, Winfrey stood by Frey, whose so-called memoir she helped promote into a bestseller. However, as the media storm around the author continued to rage, the queen of daytime eventually revoked her support during a live broadcast of her show, stating that she had made a mistake.
Warner Bros. paid $125,000 to option A Million Little Pieces in 2003, and will pay $425,000 more if the film gets made. Frey was reportedly paid $150,000 to write the script.
Before the Smoking Gun revealed his fabrications, Frey announced that the film version of his book was being coproduced by Brad Pitt and directed by Mark Romanek.
He listed Ryan Gosling, Tobey Maguire, Orlando Bloom, Josh Hartnett and Jake Gyllenhaal as just a few of the actors in contention to portray him.
"Whoever they're gonna choose, I'll be happy with. I'm much more worried with the studio staying true to the story than I am about who they put in it," Frey told Winfrey in an interview that took place shortly before his fall from grace.
Now it seems Frey's worries about the studio's interpretation of his story were all for naught, seeing as the project may never get off the ground.
Warner Bros. isn't the only entity feeling disenchanted by Frey's falsehoods. Angry readers in New York, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles have filed federal class-action suits against publishers Random House and Nan Talese, claiming that reading A Million Little Pieces was a waste of time and demanding that they be reimbursed for the cost of the book, as well as for their lost hours.
Meanwhile, social worker Jennifer Cohn filed a suit in Manhattan Supreme Court, seeking $10 million in damages on behalf of her patients to whom she recommended the book because of its "redemptive theme."
Neither Frey, nor the publishers had any comment on the suits.
One person who won't be speaking on Frey's behalf any longer is his former literary agent, Kassie Evashevski of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, who dropped him as a client this week after four years of representation.
"In the last week, it became impossible for me to maintain a relationship once the trust had been broken," Evashevski told Publisher Weekly for a story on Tuesday. "He eventually did apologize, but I felt for many reasons I had to let him go as a client."
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